Sophos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Sophos over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Sophos PLC.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 694 861 904
Rank change year-on-year +167 +43 -192
Permanent jobs citing Sophos 198 116 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% 0.28% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 191 106 294
10th Percentile £26,750 £24,813 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £30,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% +18.42%
75th Percentile £45,000 £61,500 £65,188
90th Percentile £54,250 £67,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £39,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +11.43% -6.67%

All Vendors
UK

Sophos is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,536 41,710 62,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.57% 42.06% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,889 23,890 32,938
10th Percentile £26,742 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sophos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Sophos.

Salary trend for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sophos over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sophos within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +72 180 £37,500 -3.85% 27
England +149 175 £37,500 -21.05% 28
Midlands +12 56 £37,500 -10.71% 4
Work from Home +83 54 £41,500 -12.63% 16
West Midlands +44 49 £37,500 +15.38% 1
North of England +70 36 £32,500 -16.13% 8
South East +24 33 £29,500 -19.73% 5
East of England +16 18 £42,500 -18.27% 6
North West +12 18 £32,500 +8.33% 2
South West -15 17 £32,500 +35.42% 4
London +87 15 £47,500 -26.92% 3
Scotland -52 11 £55,000 -
Yorkshire +85 9 £37,500 -6.25% 5
North East - 9 £32,500 - 1
Wales - 9 £40,500 - 2
East Midlands -18 7 £47,500 - 3

Sophos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 62 (31.31%) SharePoint
2 53 (26.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.01%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 41 (20.71%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (8.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Shopify
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 154 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 109 (55.05%) Azure
3 39 (19.70%) Entra ID
4 36 (18.18%) Mimecast
5 26 (13.13%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.08%) OneDrive
7 15 (7.58%) AWS
8 8 (4.04%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (3.54%) Google Workspace
10 5 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (2.53%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.02%) IaaS
12 3 (1.52%) GCP
12 3 (1.52%) Rubrik
12 3 (1.52%) SaaS
13 2 (1.01%) OCI
13 2 (1.01%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (46.46%) Firewall
2 44 (22.22%) DHCP
2 44 (22.22%) DNS
3 43 (21.72%) VPN
4 30 (15.15%) LAN
4 30 (15.15%) VoIP
5 28 (14.14%) TCP/IP
6 26 (13.13%) SAN
7 25 (12.63%) WAN
8 20 (10.10%) Wireless
9 17 (8.59%) Intranet
10 16 (8.08%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (7.58%) VLAN
12 14 (7.07%) WLAN
13 8 (4.04%) Internet
13 8 (4.04%) NAS
14 7 (3.54%) Unified Communications
15 6 (3.03%) Network Security
15 6 (3.03%) SMTP
16 5 (2.53%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.61%) Power BI
3 8 (4.04%) MariaDB
3 8 (4.04%) MySQL
4 4 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Hudson
General
1 88 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.22%) Finance
3 12 (6.06%) Back Office
3 12 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 9 (4.55%) Law
5 9 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.03%) Retail
8 5 (2.53%) Games
9 4 (2.02%) Legal
9 4 (2.02%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.52%) Marketing
10 3 (1.52%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.51%) Advertising
12 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 61 (30.81%) IT Support
3 58 (29.29%) IT Engineer
4 50 (25.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 34 (17.17%) IT Manager
6 30 (15.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 28 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
9 25 (12.63%) 3rd Line Support
10 21 (10.61%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 19 (9.60%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 19 (9.60%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 17 (8.59%) Senior
13 16 (8.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support
14 12 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 11 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
15 11 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
16 9 (4.55%) Analyst
16 9 (4.55%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.01%) LAMP
1 2 (1.01%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.58%) Driving Licence
2 12 (6.06%) Replication
3 6 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.53%) Cyber Security Posture
4 5 (2.53%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.02%) Clustering
5 4 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.52%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.52%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.01%) NHS
7 2 (1.01%) PKI
7 2 (1.01%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.51%) CCTV
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.51%) iPhone
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.51%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 124 (62.63%) Windows
2 98 (49.49%) Windows Server
3 43 (21.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 41 (20.71%) Windows 10
4 41 (20.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 19 (9.60%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (7.58%) Linux
7 7 (3.54%) Mac OS
8 6 (3.03%) Android
9 5 (2.53%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (2.02%) Apple iOS
10 4 (2.02%) Unix
11 2 (1.01%) AIX
11 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.01%) VMS
11 2 (1.01%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (30.81%) Customer Service
3 60 (30.30%) ITIL
4 41 (20.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (19.19%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (19.19%) Line Management
6 21 (10.61%) Service Delivery
7 20 (10.10%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (9.09%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 17 (8.59%) Data Governance
9 17 (8.59%) Digital Strategy
9 17 (8.59%) Information Governance
10 14 (7.07%) Antivirus Management
10 14 (7.07%) Mentoring
11 13 (6.57%) Kalman Filter
12 12 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (6.06%) ERP
12 12 (6.06%) Migration
12 12 (6.06%) Project Delivery
12 12 (6.06%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.13%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.04%) SQL
3 2 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (1.01%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (16.16%) Degree
2 13 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
5 10 (5.05%) CCNA
5 10 (5.05%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (4.55%) MCP
6 9 (4.55%) MCSE
6 9 (4.55%) Security Cleared
7 8 (4.04%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.54%) A+ Certification
8 7 (3.54%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.53%) MCSA
10 4 (2.02%) MCITP
11 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.01%) CCNP
12 2 (1.01%) CISA
12 2 (1.01%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.16%) SLA
2 27 (13.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (11.62%) GDPR
4 5 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.52%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.01%) GRC
6 2 (1.01%) JSP 440
6 2 (1.01%) NIST
6 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
System Software
1 102 (51.52%) Active Directory
2 51 (25.76%) Hyper-V
3 46 (23.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.04%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (2.02%) vSphere
6 3 (1.52%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.01%) Docker
7 2 (1.01%) pfSense
7 2 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.01%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (30.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (9.09%) WSUS
3 15 (7.58%) SCCM
4 9 (4.55%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.02%) Autotask
5 4 (2.02%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.52%) Backup Exec
6 3 (1.52%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.52%) SmoothWall
7 2 (1.01%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.51%) MAILsweeper
8 1 (0.51%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 157 (79.29%) Microsoft
2 64 (32.32%) VMware
3 56 (28.28%) Veeam
4 37 (18.69%) Cisco
5 25 (12.63%) Datto
5 25 (12.63%) HP
6 23 (11.62%) Apple
7 22 (11.11%) Acronis
8 21 (10.61%) Meraki
9 19 (9.60%) Citrix
10 16 (8.08%) Aruba
11 15 (7.58%) Barracuda Networks
11 15 (7.58%) ConnectWise
12 12 (6.06%) Draytek
13 11 (5.56%) Sage
14 10 (5.05%) SonicWALL
15 9 (4.55%) ESET
15 9 (4.55%) Ubiquiti
15 9 (4.55%) WatchGuard
16 8 (4.04%) EMC